Broom mugwort

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Broom mugwort
Broom wormwood (Artemisia scoparia)

Broom wormwood ( Artemisia scoparia )

Systematics
Family : Daisy family (Asteraceae)
Subfamily : Asteroideae
Tribe : Anthemideae
Sub tribus : Artemisiinae
Genre : Artemisia
Type : Broom mugwort
Scientific name
Artemisia scoparia
Waldst. & Kit.

The Broom mugwort ( Artemisia scoparia ) is a plant from the family of the daisy family (Asteraceae). It occurs from Central Europe to East Asia.

Broom wormwood ( Artemisis scoparia ), illustration

description

The broom mugwort grows as an annual to biennial or perennial herbaceous plant that can reach a height of 40 to 90 (up to 130) centimeters. One or more stems with a woody base emerge from a rhizome . The mostly hairless stems are purple-brown in color and richly branched from the base. The two or three pinnate leaves that stand in the lower stem area have a 1.5 to 4 centimeter long petiole and a 1.5 to 7 centimeter long and 1 to 5 centimeter wide, oblong-egg-shaped, circular-egg-shaped to elliptical blade. The one or two pinnate, short stalked to sessile leaves in the middle and upper stem area are 1 to 2 centimeters long and 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters wide, oblong to oblong-ovate or thread-shaped and with eyelets at the base. All leaves are hairy gray to yellowish, but become bald with age. They give off a strong odor.

The flowering period of the common mugwort extends from July to October, at least in China. The fruits ripen at the same time. The 20 to 50 centimeters long and 10 to 35 centimeters wide, panicle-shaped entire inflorescence consists of many small, short-stalked or sessile, elongated, spherical yellow baskets . The shell is almost spherical to rarely ovoid with a diameter of 1 to 2 millimeters. Each basket has five to seven female tubular flowers on the outside and four to ten male tubular flowers in the middle . The brown achenes are around 0.8 millimeters long and obovate to oblong.

The number of chromosomes is 16, 18 or 36.

Leafy stem
inflorescence

Distribution and location

The natural distribution area of ​​the broom mugwort stretches from Central Europe through South and Southeast Europe to Thailand, China, the Korean Peninsula and Honshu . There are other occurrences in Egypt.

In Austria the kind occurs particularly in the Pannonian area rarely rare to very dry grass, dry balks, fallow and waste places of hill height step on. The deposits extend to the federal states of Vienna , Lower Austria , Burgenland and Upper Austria , inconsistent occurrences are known from Styria , Carinthia and Salzburg . The species is endangered in Austria.

The broom mugwort thrives, at least in China, at altitudes of 3200 meters. It grows mainly in steppes, on slopes, on forest and desert edges, along paths and in dry river beds.

Systematics

It was first described as Artemisia scoparia in 1802 by Franz Adam von Waldstein and Pál Kitaibel . Further synonyms for Artemisia scoparia Waldst. & Kit. are Artemisia capillaris var. scoparia (Waldst. & Kit.) Pamp. , Oligosporus scoparius (Waldst. & Kit.) Less. and Oligosporus scoparius (Waldst. & Kit.) Poljakov .

use

The edible mugwort is used in traditional Chinese medicine. It has a diuretic and detoxifying effect and is said to help against earache. The smoke from the burned branches is said to accelerate the healing of burns. Furthermore, the species is said to be good fodder for goats and it is occasionally grown as an ornamental plant.

swell

  • Lin Yourun, Christopher J. Humphries, Michael G. Gilbert: Artemisia. In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 20-21: Asteraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-1-935641-07-0 , pp. 730 (English). , PDF file , online.
  • Abdul Ghafoor: Flora of Pakistan 207: Asteraceae (I) - Anthemideae. University of Karachi, Department of Botany, Karachi 2002, p. 107, online.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Lin Yourun, Christopher J. Humphries, Michael G. Gilbert: Artemisia. In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 20-21: Asteraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-1-935641-07-0 , pp. 730 (English). , PDF file , online.
  2. ↑ a b c Abdul Ghafoor: Flora of Pakistan 207: Asteraceae (I) - Anthemideae. University of Karachi, Department of Botany, Karachi 2002, p. 107, online.
  3. ↑ a b Artemisia scoparia. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network. www.ars-grin.gov, accessed on June 17, 2012 (English).
  4. ^ Manfred A. Fischer, Karl Oswald, Wolfgang Adler: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 3rd, improved edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9 .
  5. ^ Franz Adam von Waldstein, Pál Kitaibel: Descriptiones et Icones Plantarum Rariorum Hungariae. Volume 1, Schmidt, Vienna, pp. 66-67, plate 65 (PDF file).
  6. ^ Artemisia scoparia at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed June 17, 2012.

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